Mary Morrissy on Nora Barnacle: 'I give her a completely different life without Joyce'
Mary Morrissy will read at Words by Water: Kinsale Literary Festival. Picture: Denis Scannell
Mary Morrissy says the best piece of advice she has ever been given was to just keep writing.
“When I was a very young writer, I sent in one of my stories to Listowel Writers Week. It got placed but didn’t win so I wrote to the judge Bryan MacMahon looking for advice. He wrote back Solvitur Scribendo, which Latin for ‘It’s solved by writing,’ and it’s stood to me ever since.”
